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Title: Fan Orientation Failure Poll Post by: Roadhog2k5 on March 11, 2012, 04:34:29 AM If you had a GPU fan failure, vote in the poll after reading this complete post.
First off, there are two types of fans commonly used for video cards. Those are Axial fans, and Radial Fans. Radial Fan: https://i.imgur.com/n4vku.jpg Axial Fan: https://i.imgur.com/KljSY.jpg Now for the fan orientation that corresponds to the options we are going to use in this poll. Just pick the type of fan you have and the orientation that the fan was ran in that failed. Horizontal, Hub Up: https://i.imgur.com/LLsSI.jpg Horizontal, Hub Down: https://i.imgur.com/J2LDV.jpg Vertical: https://i.imgur.com/B1aix.jpg Title: Re: Fan Orientation Failure Poll Post by: ssateneth on March 11, 2012, 07:02:49 AM 2 reference 5870's 1 was upside down, other was normal. Both failed. Also had a sapphire 5830 hub down having some internal friction; drilled hole + wd40 seems to have fixed it so far.
Title: Re: Fan Orientation Failure Poll Post by: Starlightbreaker on March 11, 2012, 08:42:32 AM 2 reference 5870's 1 was upside down, other was normal. Both failed. Also had a sapphire 5830 hub down having some internal friction; drilled hole + wd40 seems to have fixed it so far. ಠ_ಠwd40 is not a lubricant Title: Re: Fan Orientation Failure Poll Post by: dmcurser on March 11, 2012, 12:28:29 PM befor you go saying wd40 isnt a lubercant ask what kind of wd40 i got wd40 white lithum grease pretty sure that a lubercant
http://www.wd40specialist.com/products/lithium-grease/ Title: Re: Fan Orientation Failure Poll Post by: Roadhog2k5 on March 11, 2012, 09:29:27 PM befor you go saying wd40 isnt a lubercant ask what kind of wd40 i got wd40 white lithum grease pretty sure that a lubercant http://www.wd40specialist.com/products/lithium-grease/ Or you know, just say what kind of wd40 you were using in the first place. Title: Re: Fan Orientation Failure Poll Post by: Global BTC on March 12, 2012, 01:57:30 AM I once knew a verticle lubercant.
Title: Re: Fan Orientation Failure Poll Post by: Roadhog2k5 on March 17, 2012, 05:45:05 AM bump
Title: Re: Fan Orientation Failure Poll Post by: Global BTC on March 17, 2012, 09:29:06 AM Good to see you fixed the spelling error.
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